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APIs for Search Experience Experiments

Consider the Basics To create a memorable search experience for a certain set of products, one of the most important elements is the data to be shown. The information that shoppers receive regarding the different products available greatly impacts their decision whether or not to make a purchase. Of course,

Session Contextualization

TL;DR Yes, there is a way to help shoppers find what they need, without tracking or collecting personal information. It’s called session contextualization and, here at Empathy.co, it is how we interpret shoppers’ interactions in an ecommerce store, in order to provide a delightful user experience. You

ElasticSearch Data Migration in Kubernetes

Managing stateful applications in Kubernetes has a reputation for being difficult and tricky, but it doesn't have to be! Take a look at the options we tried first-hand at Empathy.co for migrating data with ElasticSearch.

Success story: From AWS EMR to Kubernetes

Motivation This article is an overview of the path we followed to migrate Spark Workloads to Kubernetes and to avoid EMR dependency. EMR was an important support tool at Empathy.co [https://empathy.co/] to orchestrate Spark workloads, but once the workloads became more complex, the use of EMR also

Running Apache Flink on Kubernetes

During the last weeks, I was deploying a Flink cluster on Kubernetes cluster. I’d like to share the challenges, architecture, Kubernetes deployment, solution details and the journey on this article Challenges At Empathy, all code running in Production must be cloud agnostic. Empathy had a cloud dependency regarding Dataflow